About the Authors

Björn P. Johansson

Affiliation Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center (BMC), Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Oonagh Shannon

Affiliation Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center (BMC), Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Lars Björck

*E-mail: lars.bjorck@med.lu.se

Affiliation Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center (BMC), Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

Hansa Medical, that in part funded this study has filed patent applications on IdeS. BPJ and LB are listed as inventors and the applications are pending.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LB BJ OS. Performed the experiments: BJ OS. Analyzed the data: LB BJ OS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB. Wrote the paper: LB. Other: Designed the study: LB.